Neven Allgeier
- Environment
- 2017
- photograph
- courtesy of the artist
Desert Ants4 can navigate precisely using the sun.5 When it is obscured, they use the pattern of polarized light across the blue sky as a compass.6 They have an extra set of eyes for this.7
- Cataglyphis
- Santschi, 1911
- Fent & Wehner, 1985
- The ocelli are located on the ant’s forehead, in between her compound eyes, not unlike a magical third eye.